Women are Angry

‘I’m a therapist, and I have something disturbing to tell you. Women are in trouble. An autoimmune condition ravages our bodies and minds. I witness the devastation daily. The symptoms vary – from obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) to anxiety, from migraine to depression to eczema. And there’s a common cause: anger. Anger is eating us up, from the inside out. The pressures heaped on women by every level of society, and its systems, leave us furious. But we’ve been conditioned not to recognise our rage, so it burns behind the scenes. And from there, it’s destroying us.’

~ Jennifer Cox Women Are Angry published in 2024

Many of us recognise this pattern – we grow up to be polite and not to express our anger. Yet we are often faced with situations not of our making that cause justifiable anger – being…